Saving Philosophy at the University of Detroit Mercy
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angela gonzalez (2017)
11 years ago
Why take away the one department that teaches us how and why to think something beyond us, isn't that what a university needs to do anyway ?
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HUMAN Detroit
11 years ago
BSBA Alumni '04
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Trevor Tomlinson
11 years ago
Class of 2010
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Joe Jordan
11 years ago
An essential part of the Jesuit model of education is philosophy. If you claim to be a Jesuit school, you have no room from removing philosophically minded courses from the core curriculum.
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Kevin Palmer (2017)
11 years ago
ithout knowledge how can we empower ourselves and be catalysts to change in our society? In a world so fraught with ignorance and bigotry, philosophy allows us the opportunity to step back and ask the basic question: why? The University of Detroit Mercy prides itself on being an institution rooted in Jesuit and Mercy teaching and education traditions, however, by removing philosophy from the curriculum the next generation of students will be deprived of this opportunity to question the way things are in the world, and explore their minds. Medical professionals, business leaders, and architects will not be exposed to these tools that separate UDM graduates from the rest. I am upset that this is even being considered, and I am disgusted that UDM is doing its part to add to the ignorance that is already so prevalent in our society.
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Elaine Jirkans
11 years ago
1994 Liberal Arts grad. For the love of Fr. Art McGovern sj and Professor Anton Donoso. May they rest in peace and may all the love and wisdom they imparted not be in vain.
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Sarah Casnovsky
11 years ago
The Philosophy classes at UDM aid students in thinking in different ways that they may not have before. To get rid of such a necessary part of a student's education would be downright unacceptably wrong. UDM needs more programs that are not based around Science, as not every student can be a science-related major. Save the Philosophy department, and help continue to make UDM students well-rounded, as all liberal arts students should be.
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Kevin DiSalle (2014)
11 years ago
Philosophy courses in UDM's core curriculum allowed me to graduate magna cum laude in 2014 with a double major. I am currently employed in corporate banking. The ease with which I was able to secure employment upon graduation is wholly due to my relevant coursework in finance and economics. However, my philosophical studies have instilled in me a love of knowledge and sense of purpose. I have no doubt that, over the course of my lifetime, my philosophical studies will prove to be immeasurably more valuable than any kind of professional or practical instruction that I received while at Detroit Mercy.
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Hayden Juergens (2015)
11 years ago
How do we know truth without philosophy?
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dan jones
11 years ago
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I entered college with the end goal already in mind. I want to be a clinical psychologist. However, philosophy has been just as important to my understanding of why to do anything in this world. Without it, I would have been lost in my first semester.
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Ryan Welsh
11 years ago
If you need any assistance, feel free to email me.
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Erin Stein
11 years ago
I really enjoyed my experience with my philosphy course and hope that the university keeps it.
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Angela Tuscany
11 years ago
My philosophy classes are two of the most enjoyable and insightful classes I've taken in my 10 years of college
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Daryl Murphy
11 years ago
Although I am an architecture major I feel that philosophy plays a huge part in the
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Chris Henisse
11 years ago
2015, Philosophy should be a part of the core. We all want the great things it supplies to our minds!
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Kimberly Clapp
11 years ago
Philosophy is an important part of education.
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Almir Karamovic (2015)
11 years ago
A university education without the humanities, is not a university education at all.
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Kate Clapp
11 years ago
PLEASE KEEP THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
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Charles Smartt
11 years ago
We live a society where the young people (my generation) is inadequately prepared to answer the obvious questions facing them. Swayed by hasty generalizations and foolish arguments like "he did that, why can't I" or "I did it less than Billy, so I'm no bad", the ability to critically think is more important than ever - and often the first exposure to true critical thought happens at the University. There is no subject at the University that suffers from incorporating true philosophy courses in their curriculum. People in business and medicine need to know about ethics and politics (business people about the concerns of greed and the impacts on society, and doctors/nurses about ethical treatment of patients; i.e. right to die, abortion, etc.). People in computers, mathematics, and engineering need to know about pure logic (pure thinking) to solve their problems - the science (and artform) of induction and deduction is the spirit of philosphy (I benefited in this particular). Then there are more abstract questions - what does it mean to die? what does it mean to live? No program but philosophy teaches this. The University of Detroit-Mercy is already weak in its core-curriculum with regards to philsophy - if it weakens further it would only discourage "pure thought", stifle intellectual debate, and ultimately hurt its ability to produce true thinkers.
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Evan Pilot
11 years ago
It seems a little bit ridiculous that Philosophy would be removed from the core curriculum. I'm who are we, the Greeks forcing Socrates to drink hemlock? That seems a little impious to me. and what would Aristotle say about this.
Why take away the one department that teaches us how and why to think something beyond us, isn't that what a university needs to do anyway ?
BSBA Alumni '04
Class of 2010
An essential part of the Jesuit model of education is philosophy. If you claim to be a Jesuit school, you have no room from removing philosophically minded courses from the core curriculum.
ithout knowledge how can we empower ourselves and be catalysts to change in our society? In a world so fraught with ignorance and bigotry, philosophy allows us the opportunity to step back and ask the basic question: why? The University of Detroit Mercy prides itself on being an institution rooted in Jesuit and Mercy teaching and education traditions, however, by removing philosophy from the curriculum the next generation of students will be deprived of this opportunity to question the way things are in the world, and explore their minds. Medical professionals, business leaders, and architects will not be exposed to these tools that separate UDM graduates from the rest. I am upset that this is even being considered, and I am disgusted that UDM is doing its part to add to the ignorance that is already so prevalent in our society.
1994 Liberal Arts grad. For the love of Fr. Art McGovern sj and Professor Anton Donoso. May they rest in peace and may all the love and wisdom they imparted not be in vain.
The Philosophy classes at UDM aid students in thinking in different ways that they may not have before. To get rid of such a necessary part of a student's education would be downright unacceptably wrong. UDM needs more programs that are not based around Science, as not every student can be a science-related major. Save the Philosophy department, and help continue to make UDM students well-rounded, as all liberal arts students should be.
Philosophy courses in UDM's core curriculum allowed me to graduate magna cum laude in 2014 with a double major. I am currently employed in corporate banking. The ease with which I was able to secure employment upon graduation is wholly due to my relevant coursework in finance and economics. However, my philosophical studies have instilled in me a love of knowledge and sense of purpose. I have no doubt that, over the course of my lifetime, my philosophical studies will prove to be immeasurably more valuable than any kind of professional or practical instruction that I received while at Detroit Mercy.
How do we know truth without philosophy?
I entered college with the end goal already in mind. I want to be a clinical psychologist. However, philosophy has been just as important to my understanding of why to do anything in this world. Without it, I would have been lost in my first semester.
If you need any assistance, feel free to email me.
I really enjoyed my experience with my philosphy course and hope that the university keeps it.
My philosophy classes are two of the most enjoyable and insightful classes I've taken in my 10 years of college
Although I am an architecture major I feel that philosophy plays a huge part in the
2015, Philosophy should be a part of the core. We all want the great things it supplies to our minds!
Philosophy is an important part of education.
A university education without the humanities, is not a university education at all.
PLEASE KEEP THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
We live a society where the young people (my generation) is inadequately prepared to answer the obvious questions facing them. Swayed by hasty generalizations and foolish arguments like "he did that, why can't I" or "I did it less than Billy, so I'm no bad", the ability to critically think is more important than ever - and often the first exposure to true critical thought happens at the University. There is no subject at the University that suffers from incorporating true philosophy courses in their curriculum. People in business and medicine need to know about ethics and politics (business people about the concerns of greed and the impacts on society, and doctors/nurses about ethical treatment of patients; i.e. right to die, abortion, etc.). People in computers, mathematics, and engineering need to know about pure logic (pure thinking) to solve their problems - the science (and artform) of induction and deduction is the spirit of philosphy (I benefited in this particular). Then there are more abstract questions - what does it mean to die? what does it mean to live? No program but philosophy teaches this. The University of Detroit-Mercy is already weak in its core-curriculum with regards to philsophy - if it weakens further it would only discourage "pure thought", stifle intellectual debate, and ultimately hurt its ability to produce true thinkers.
It seems a little bit ridiculous that Philosophy would be removed from the core curriculum. I'm who are we, the Greeks forcing Socrates to drink hemlock? That seems a little impious to me. and what would Aristotle say about this.